Suicide letter

A suicide note or death note is a message left behind before a person has committed suicide, or who intends to commit suicide.

It is estimated that 25–30% of suicides are accompanied by a note. However, incidence rates may depend on ethnicity, race and cultural differences, and may reach rates as high as 50% in certain demographics. The content can be a plea for absolution or blaming family, friends or society for life's failings. A suicide message can be a written note, an audio message, or a video.

Some fields of study, such as sociology, psychiatry and graphology, have investigated the reasons why people who commit suicide leave a note.

According to Lenora Olsen, the most common reasons that people contemplating suicide choose to write a suicide note include one or more of the following:

Sometimes there is also a message in the case of murder–suicide, explaining the reason(s) for the murder(s), see for example, Marc Lépine's suicide statement and videotaped statements of the 7 July 2005 London bombers.

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